"Wicked as fresh red paint and poisonous as dried spiders" since 2005.

Friday, October 24, 2014

WOMEN OF HORROR: VERONICA CARLSON

HAMMER'S COOL BLONDE.

Veronica Carlson has the wrath of Count Dracula and the lust of Dr. Frankenstein. Oh yeah, and another Dr. Frankenstein as well. And that's not to mention a cannibalistic ghoul. Veronica Carlson has joined the pantheon of the women of horror by way of:

THE AGE OF THE KNOW-NOTHING TOTS

"...the situation today is fuckin' bloody tragic. We operate in the Age of the Know-Nothing Tots. Kids raised not on literature, or even on films, but on television reruns, are being hired every minute to write and produce films that have the social import and artistic longevity of zweiback."

-- Harlan Ellison

"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is, as we all know, king. And across the way, in the country of the witless, the half-wit is king."